Honduras Murder Capital of the World
I can not believe that it is on the list.
[URL]http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/alertswarnings/honduras-travel-warning.html[/URL]
[URL]http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/country-chapters/honduras[/URL]
[QUOTE=LifeIsABeach;1697951]March 22 2015:
For the first time in a decade, the top 10 happiest countries in the world are all in Latin America, according to the 2014 Gallup Positive Experience Index.
Paraguay placed first out of 143 countries, with its people reporting the most positive emotions on a daily basis, according to the survey. Gallup researchers released the results for the United Nations' third annual International Day of Happiness today (March 20).
To gauge happiness levels around the world, researchers interviewed about 1,000 people in each country, either in person or over the phone. All of the participants were age 15 or older, and answered questions about how happy they felt the day before.
More than 70 percent of the respondents worldwide said they experienced enjoyment; smiled or laughed; felt well rested; and thought they were treated with respect, the poll found. What's more, half of the participants said they had learned or did something interesting the day before the interview, according to the poll.
Gallup researchers compiled a "positive experience index score" for each country based on the responses to these five questions. Overall, the world has an average index score of 71 out of 100, but all of the Latin American countries that ranked in the top 10 scored higher than that.
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Better Nightlife. Bogota or Cali or Cartagena
[QUOTE=Lmarcone;1697953]What do you like? Salsa-dancing or beach, islands, historical-architecture?
Honestly, CTG has more going on- and you can always pop over to Barranquilla or Santa Marta from there.
Have fun![/QUOTE]Thanks. Basically looking to see which of the cities offer better nightlife and has better / more bars, discos, and casas.
Besides the tourist sites.
Colombian Sex Parties One of the Job Perks
[URL]http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...f1c_story.html[/URL]
Drug Enforcement Administration agents allegedly had "sex parties" with prostitutes hired by local drug cartels overseas over a period of several years, according to a report released Thursday by the Justice Department's watchdog.
The report did not specify the country where the parties occurred, but a law enforcement official familiar with the matter identified it as Colombia.
Seven of the 10 DEA agents alleged to have participated in the gatherings — most of which took place at an agent's "quarters" leased by the USA Government — admitted to having attended the parties, the report found. The agents, some of whom had top-secret security clearances, received suspensions of two to 10 days.
Former police officers in Colombia also alleged that three DEA supervisory special agents were provided with money, expensive gifts and weapons from drug cartel members, according to the report.
"Although some of the DEA agents participating in these parties denied it, the information in the case file suggested they should have known the prostitutes in attendance were paid with cartel funds," according to the 131-page report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz.
The findings were part of a much broader investigation into the handling of allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct from fiscal 2009 to 2012 at federal law enforcement agencies — the DEA, the FBI, the USA Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Horowitz said the investigation was "significantly impacted and unnecessarily delayed" by repeated difficulties his office had in obtaining relevant information from the FBI and the DEA. When he did receive the information, he said, it "was still incomplete. ".
In a statement, a spokesman for the Justice Department said officials took the issues raised in the inspector general's report seriously and are "taking steps to implement policies and procedures to help prevent them from happening in the future. ".
The investigation was launched in response to congressional inquiries following the 2012 prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, involving Secret Service agents.
At the time, one Secret Service advance agent implicated in the scandal told investigators that he had met with a prostitute as a result of an informal party that DEA agents hosted with Colombian women, according to officials briefed on the inquiry.
Ten of the 13 Secret Service personnel implicated were pressured to resign or retire, or were forced out of their jobs. Three were able to keep their positions, after it was determined that they had not violated their security clearances.
At the time, one Secret Service advance agent implicated in the scandal told investigators that he had met with a prostitute as a result of an informal party that DEA agents hosted with Colombian women, according to officials briefed on the inquiry.
Ten of the 13 Secret Service personnel implicated were pressured to resign or retire, or were forced out of their jobs. Three were able to keep their positions, after it was determined that they had not violated their security clearances.
"The Department of Justice may not be taking adequate steps to prevent its own employees from buying sex and thereby contributing to the demand for the human sex trade," Grassley wrote to Acting Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates.
Venezuelan Girls in Colombia
I have read media reports that Venezuelan girls have invaded the Colombian border town of Cucuta, and are offering sex services on the cheap there.
Well, if there any girls who give Colombianas a run for their money when it comes to beauty, it is Venezuelan women.
So, I thought, if a girl is a real beauty, she wouldn't stay stuck in Cucuta for long, and will leave to greener pastures (and more money) to bigger cities in Colombia.
Anyone on the ground that noticed Venezuelan P4 P girls in our usual hot-spots like in Medellin or Cali or Cartagena?
Because, if you can find both Colombianas and Venezuelan P4 P girls in Colombia, it will become the next best thing since heaven! .
Anyone open a bank account in Colombia recently?
Has anyone here been successful in opening a Colombian bank account, and if so how did you do it? I keep getting told that I need to have proof of income here in Colombia. I have read that you can open an account with your cedular extranjeria, passport, and proof of residency (utility bill or the like) but the proof of income in Colombia no can do. This was at Citi BTW. I wanted to open an account with them since I have a Citi account in the states but I am open to other banks if need be. Might have to try HSBC next.
Really only need the account to bring money in to buy a house. Otherwise I would just keep rocking the ATM like I've been doing for the last 4 years.
Surely there are some gringos here with Colombian bank accounts but no jobs?
True two of the worlds most beautiful are in Cucuta accord to article recently
[URL]http://fusion.net/story/107578/crisis-pushes-venezuelan-women-to-sell-sex-in-colombia/[/URL]
[QUOTE=Sympalogy;1700465]I have read media reports that Venezuelan girls have invaded the Colombian border town of Cucuta, and are offering sex services on the cheap there.
Well, if there any girls who give Colombians a run for their money when it comes to beauty, it is Venezuelan women.
So, I thought, if a girl is a real beauty, she wouldn't stay stuck in Cucuta for long, and will leave to greener pastures (and more money) to bigger cities in Colombia.
Anyone on the ground that noticed Venezuelan P4 P girls in our usual hot-spots like in Medellin or Cali or Cartagena?
Because, if you can find both Colombianas and Venezuelan P4 P girls in Colombia, it will become the next best thing since heaven![/QUOTE]
New travellers info. Colombia; It's Amazing, it really is Paradise!
[QUOTE=SlamCity7777;1703497]One question. Why do you always take the conversation to marrying a paisas and putting her on a track? It sounds like you're trying to pimp your wife? Then break down the stats of how much a Colombian _ makes and yeah.
Why? Can't you just enjoy the fun of it all and the natural beauty? Why do you always take it to the math side of thing?
The second part: Which Natsha and Isabela?
I am a fan of that series and I would disagree that they are hotter than most every other Colombian girl I will say they are hot and I would like to make a personal movie with one or both of them.
LMK if this is possible.[/QUOTE]I wanted to say to guys that has never been in Colombia; yes, it is a Paradise, and you can afford it and you can meet the girl of your dreams, even a man with average looks, maybe not all guys, but far many more than back home! Personality are also a strong factor that are valued much higher here; I get friends and girlfriends since I'm a "persona amable", while it's a fundamental weakness in an aggressive Anglo-Saxon society!
That was a dream, a fantasy, marrying a pornostar / prepago. We all have such and the girls often ask me; what is your sexual fantasy; and we can talk about erotic subjects freely, and of course girl / friends sometimes ask how much girls make in SexPrison, about porno, female erotic stars, as Colombia has many famous bikini-models from Mejor Cola de la Valle, Chica's car Audio, etc. If any arrangement, marrying such a girl in the future; That's would be a miracle; I love miracles!
Half consciously half subconsciously I wright for guys so they don't do the same irreversible mistake as myself; I did not believe the good reports about Colombia back in 2005; so I went to Argentina and Peru instead; I only visited Bogota for a week 2006. That was a mistake based on the view that Colombia is / was South America's Lebanon and Medellin it's Beirut! Which was true back in the 90's. I lost 4 years, which could have been my very best ones, and I hope to prevent other guys from doing the same! There is an enormous difference between Colombia and Peru and Argentina; Colombia wins hands down in very central aspects; without necessarily loosing big on other parameters. It is easy to think that Latin America is much the same, but the difference is sometimes striking; that they all speak Spanish in all the countries (except Brazil, but it's very close) often leads us automatically to the conclusion that the culture are very similar, but it's not!
I apologize that I mixed up $$$ and the joyful living. It is strange that I -just as you say, I often write like that- since in my real life I'm very carefree about $$$ and just do what you advice me to; Just enjoy!
The Colombia feeling, The Cali-feeling, The Medellin-feeling, The Cartagena-feeling; I think Cartagena has the most magical feeling. When coming to Colombia, I just laugh of happiness, and many times living in Medellin; I stood on my balcony, or in the Bodytech gym, La 70; just thinking; I'm in Medellin and it's amazing, It's Amazing!
Natasha is the girl in "La Vecina" and Isabella is "Luchy", just Google; Natasha / Isabella / Luchy + Culioneros.
